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title: Create or Edit a Chapter
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category: Chapters
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tags: chapters, scenes, pacing, revision
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contextKey: chapters.edit
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micro: Shape a chapter as a reader-facing movement inside a book.
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quickTitle: What belongs in a Chapter?
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quickSummary: Use a Chapter to group scenes into a readable movement with clear pacing, rhythm and purpose.
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screenshot:
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# Overview
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Chapters organise scenes into reader-facing structure. A chapter can group related scenes, hold a viewpoint movement, create a pacing beat or mark a turn in the book's rhythm.
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# When Should I Use This?
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Use this page when creating a new chapter, adjusting chapter order, or updating the summary and revision status for an existing chapter.
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# How To Use It
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Set the chapter number, add a working title, choose revision status and write a summary that explains what the chapter does for the book.
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# Example
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A chapter summary might be: "Maggie enters the hotel mystery and receives the first impossible clue."
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# Writer Tip
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Do not treat chapters as fixed too early. During revision, chapter boundaries often move as scene rhythm becomes clearer.
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# Common Mistakes
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- Using chapter summaries as full scene-by-scene recaps.
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- Keeping a chapter intact after it has split into two different movements.
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- Ignoring revision status when deciding what still needs work.
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# Related Guides
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- [Chapters](/Help/Article/chapters.overview)
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- [Scenes](/Help/Article/scenes.overview)
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- [Books](/Help/Article/books.overview)
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